Making Space for Bi+ Identities

How do bi+ people navigate identity, gender, and relationships in a biphobic society? This book explores this question to show how to better include and incorporate bi+ people in research, policy, and the everyday.

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Rosie Nelson (they/them) is a Lecturer in Gender in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies at the University of Bristol, England. Their research interests include sexuality, gender, qualitative research methods, and feminism.

Inhalt

Introduction: Finding the starting point

Section One: Living in a Hostile Society

1. Bi+ Identities in Society

2. Academic Interpretations of Bi+ Identities

3. Bi+ Representation in Academic Scholarship

4. Method to the Madness

Section Two: Bi+ Identities and Language

Section Two Introduction

5. Figuring It Out: Monosexist Internal Narratives

6. Letting It Fly: Monosexism and Homophobia in Disclosure and Community

7. Living Your Life: Navigating Monosexism and Homophobia

Section Two Conclusion: Bi+ People as Sexual Renegades

Section Three: Gender and Sexuality

Section Three Introduction

8. Embodied Sexualities: Seeking Pleasure, Performing Desirability

9. Following the Script, Doing the Dance: Expectations in Gendered Relationships

Section Three Conclusion: Bi+ Overburdened Romantic Possibilities

Section Four: Bi+ Identity, Embodiment, and Gender

Section Four Introduction

10. Twisting the Cistem: Cis People and Gender Performance

11. Smashing the Cistem: Trans and Non Binary People and Gender Performance

12. Bi+ Identities and Gender Identities

Section Four Conclusion: Bi+ People as Gender Ambivalent

Conclusion: Towards a Bi+ Future